Oscar Wilde Quotes
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Name: Oscar Wilde Birth: October 16, 1854 Death: November 29, 1900 (46) Birthplace: Dublin Occupation: Poet Star Sign: Libra |
"There are only two tragedies in life: one is not getting what one wants, and the other is getting it." - Oscar Wilde
"True friends stab you in the front." - Oscar Wilde
"Hatred is blind, as well as love." - Oscar Wilde
"Nothing that is worth knowing can be taught." - Oscar Wilde
"The moment you think you understand a great work of art, it's dead for you." - Oscar Wilde
"The world has grown suspicious of anything that looks like a happily married life." - Oscar Wilde
"History is merely gossip." - Oscar Wilde
"Authority is quite degrading." - Oscar Wilde
"Work is the refuge of people who have nothing better to do." - Oscar Wilde
"Scandal is gossip made tedious by morality." - Oscar Wilde
"Popularity is the one insults I have never suffered." - Oscar Wilde
"To become a spectator of one`s own life is to escape the suffering of life." - Oscar Wilde
"Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future." - Oscar Wilde
"Pessimist: One who, when he has the choice of two evils, chooses both." - Oscar Wilde
"A gentleman is one who never hurts anyone's feelings unintentionally." - Oscar Wilde
"One's real life is often the life that one does not lead." - Oscar Wilde
"No object is so beautiful that, under certain conditions, it will not look ugly." - Oscar Wilde
"Deceiving others."That is what the world calls a romance." - Oscar Wilde
"Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes." - Oscar Wilde
"There are many things that we would throw away if we were not afraid that others might pick them up." - Oscar Wilde
"Man is least himself when he talks in his own person."Give him a mask, and he will tell you the truth." - Oscar Wilde
"Who, being loved, is poor?" - Oscar Wilde
"I don't at all like knowing what people say of me behind my back."It makes me far too conceited." - Oscar Wilde
"There is no such thing as a good influence."Because to influence a person is to give him one's own soul."He does not think his natural thoughts, or burn with his natural passions."His virtures are not real to him."His sins, if there are such thing as sins..." - Oscar Wilde
"Always forgive your enemies - nothing annoys them so much." - Oscar Wilde
"Experience is one thing you can`t get for nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"The world was my oyster but I used the wrong fork." - Oscar Wilde
"You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know." - Oscar Wilde
"One should always play fairly when one has the winning cards." - Oscar Wilde
"The suspense is terrible."I hope it will last." - Oscar Wilde
"I dislike arguments of any kind."They are always vulgar, and often convincing." - Oscar Wilde
"The security of Society lies in custom and unconscious instinct, and the basis of the stability of Society, as a healthy organism, is the complete absence of any intelligence amongst its members." - Oscar Wilde
"I have nothing to declare except my genius." - Oscar Wilde
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible." - Oscar Wilde
"If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all." - Oscar Wilde
"A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it." - Oscar Wilde
"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly." - Oscar Wilde
A man who is master of himself can end a sorrow as easily as he can invent a pleasure."I don't want to be at the mercy of my emotions."I want to use them, to enjoy them, and to dominate them." - Oscar Wilde
"Life imitates art far more than art imitates life." - Oscar Wilde
"They spoil every romance by trying to make it last forever." - Oscar Wilde
"Whenever a man does a thoroughly stupid thing, it is always from the noblest motives." - Oscar Wilde
"Success is a science; if you have the conditions, you get the result." - Oscar Wilde
"Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals." - Oscar Wilde
"All charming people, I fancy, are spoiled."It is the secret of their attraction." - Oscar Wilde
"Conversation should touch everything, but should concentrate itself on nothing." - Oscar Wilde
"When liberty comes with hands dabbled in blood it is hard to shake hands with her." - Oscar Wilde
"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation." - Oscar Wilde
"All bad poetry springs from genuine feeling." - Oscar Wilde
"All art is quite useless." - Oscar Wilde
"How can a woman be expected to be happy with a man who insists on treating her as if she were a perfectly normal human being." - Oscar Wilde
"What seems to us as bitter trials are often blessings in disguise." - Oscar Wilde
"The aim of life is self-development."To realize one's nature perfectly - that is what each of us is here for." - Oscar Wilde
"It is only an auctioneer who can equally and impartially admire all schools of art." - Oscar Wilde
"Art is the most intense mode of individualism that the world has known." - Oscar Wilde
"A poet can survive everything but a misprint." - Oscar Wilde
"A work of art is the unique result of a unique temperament." - Oscar Wilde
No great artist ever sees things as they really are."If he did, he would cease to be an artist."
All that I desire to point out is the general principle that life imitates art far more than art imitates life."
Everybody who is incapable of learning has taken to teaching." - Oscar Wilde
"Religions die when they are proved to be true."Science is the record of dead religions." - Oscar Wilde
"Between men and women there is no friendship possible."There is passion, enmity, worship, love, but no friendship." - Oscar Wilde
"I put all my genius into my life; I put only my talent into my works." - Oscar Wilde
"Illusion is the first of all pleasures." - Oscar Wilde
"In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane." - Oscar Wilde
"When good Americans die they go to Paris." - Oscar Wilde
"When a love comes to an end, weaklings cry, efficient ones instantly find another love, and the wise already have one in reserve." - Oscar Wilde
"Seriousness is the last refuge of the shallow." - Oscar Wilde
"The world has been made by fools that men should live in it." - Oscar Wilde
"Comfort is the only thing our civilization can give us." - Oscar Wilde
"Temperament is the primary requisite for the critic - a temperament exquisitely susceptible to beauty, and to the various impressions that beauty gives us." - Oscar Wilde
"A red rose is not selfish because it wants to be a red rose."It would be horribly selfish if it wanted all the other flowers in the garden to be both red and roses." - Oscar Wilde
"People who love only once in their lives are - shallow people."What they call their loyalty, and their fidelity, I call either the lethargy of custom or their lack of imagination." - Oscar Wilde
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world." - Oscar Wilde
"Ridicule is the tribute paid to the genius by the mediocrities." - Oscar Wilde
"His morality is all sympathy, just what morality should be." - Oscar Wilde
"I don't like compliments, and I don`t see why a man should think he is pleasing a woman enormously when he says to her a whole heap of things that he doesn't mean." - Oscar Wilde
"In examinations, the foolish ask questions the wise cannot answer." - Oscar Wilde
"To love oneself is the beginning of a life-long romance." - Oscar Wilde
"What people call insincerity is simply a method by which we can multiply our personalities." - Oscar Wilde
"I can sympathize with everything, except suffering." - Oscar Wilde
"Wickedness is a myth invented by good people to account for the curious attractiveness of others." - Oscar Wilde
"It is only shallow people who do not judge by appearances." - Oscar Wilde
"It is the confession, not the priest, that gives us absolution." - Oscar Wilde
"By persistently remaining single a man converts himself into a permanent public temptation." - Oscar Wilde